So often in dating, a lot of your time is spent figuring out the “right” place or the “right” restaurant to take your date. Here is a little advice for guys out there who want to impress women when they take them out on a date.
Go to www.yelp.com. It has reviews on restaurants. When you’re on that third or fourth date trying to impress that date, you want to find a cute cafe or a great restaurant. So look at the reviews. Look not only at the reviews about the food, but also the reviews about the service.
The reason to do this is something I realized while I was in France. Waiters in France and the United Kingdom (and actually all throughout Europe) are professional waiters. In Los Angeles and New York waiters are struggling actors, so you are not getting great service a lot of times.
In Europe, however, you are getting waiters whose career is being a waiter. Also, in Europe they pay their waiter a respectable wage. It’s a career, not just a job. They even get health benefits and so forth. Restaurants here barely pay you, and they expect the customers to tip you 30% so you can earn respectable wages.
We’ve already talked about tipping in a previous blog, so that’s not what we’re going to talk about today. What is really important about this, though, is to avoid having bad service when you’re on a date.
You don’t want bad service when you’re on a date because, if you think about it, you are not your nicest self when you’re faced with bad service at a restaurant.
Things may come out of your mouth that wouldn’t otherwise say, and on a date you are always trying to make a good impression.
Your surroundings are really important on a date. So the next time you’re planning a date, check out yelp.com and the restaurant reviews on there . . . especially the reviews of the service at each place. When you’re out there, you better make sure that everything is in your favor, and bad service can quickly turn a good date into a bad one.
hey david,
i want your opinion on how to solve your girlfriend’s unlimited problem. i like a girl and she knows that. although we are not dating. she always shares her all major problems with me and expect me to solve it. i dont know what to do.
Virgo sounds like you fell into her “nice guy” catagory. women just want you listen,not solve their problem.
I agree, except that Yelp will select whose review to keep or delete. If you’re a regular poster, then most likely your review will remain, but if you somewhere and get bad service and are determined to voice your experience on Yelp, chances are it will be removed within a couple of weeks if you haven’t reviewed other places.
very well said david and it’s very true.
another tips… what i usually do is… i always get to know the waiter or the boss of the restaurant first and then next time i bring my date to that particular restaurant again… at least it won’t turn out to be what we don’t expect.
simple and nice blogs david.
Thanks !!